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Asked: May 22, 20262026-05-22T15:25:58+00:00 2026-05-22T15:25:58+00:00

I need to find all short PHP tags. The regex for it <\?(?!php) but

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I need to find all short PHP tags.

The regex for it <\?(?!php) but I can not use it in vim.

How to “convert” it to vim?

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    2026-05-22T15:25:59+00:00Added an answer on May 22, 2026 at 3:25 pm

    The best way to find short-tags in vim is to find all occurrences of <? not followed by a p:

    /<?[^p]
    

    The reason your regex is failing in vim is because /? finds literal question marks, while \? is a quantifier; /<\? in vim will attempt to find 0 or 1 less-than signs. This is backwards from what you might expect in most regular expression engines.


    If you want to match short tags that are immediately followed by a new line, you cannot use [^p], which requires there to be something there to match which isn’t a p. In this case, you can match “not p or end-of-line” with

    /<?\($\|[^p]\)
    
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